UFO alert! Did you see moving orange light?

Zdravko Nanev thinks he might have seen extra-terrestrial activity from the balcony of his flat in Kelvin Gate, looking in the direction of Chavey Down and Ascot at around 11.30pm that night.

The 30-year-old said: “At first I thought it was a helicopter because there are a lot of police helicopters that fly over this area but the light was bigger than usual and there was no sound – I expected that if it was a machine there would be a great sound.

“Then I thought it might be a meteorite or fireball but I have seen shooting stars before and they move very quickly. This had more constant, controlled speed and it was moving sideways rather than down.

“It was an orange blob and it was glowing – like a lightbulb, for example.

“It was there for no more than 15 or 20 seconds at most and then it became a small dot.”

But he says he knows it was not a Chinese lantern.

“I have seen Chinese lanterns before and they drift upwards and move with the wind.

“This was completely different.

“It wasn’t moving with the wind.

“I’m not usually the sort of person who believes in flying saucers but I don’t know what this was.

“And I wasn’t drunk or anything.”

Stargazers have been in touch since the story was posted this site to say what Zdravko saw could have been a satellite.

The US space agency NASA publishes information as to when satellites can be seen above towns and cities.

According to the NASA website, a satellite could have been seen above Bracknell at an elevation of 83 degrees, approaching from the west and departing in the east at about 10.30pm on Friday.

The next times satellites can be seen above Bracknell are tonight, when a satellite arrives from a west-south-west direction and departs in a southerly direction at 10.24pm.